Author: Zugmayer, 1911

Asquamiceps velaris Zugmayer, 1911

Diagnosis: body moderately elongate and compressed; head very large, almost half body length, the gill cover reaching back to cover base of pectoral fin; snout with sharp ridge down midline; eye large, its hind margin before midpoint of head; interorbital width 4.6-6.4% SL; tip of upper jaw not reaching beyond eye; gillrakers 45 + 1 + 9-12 = 15-18. Pyloric caeca 3-4. Dorsal finrays 16-17, pectoral fin fan-like, with 13-15 finrays, pelvic fin near to anal fin, with 5 finrays, anal finrays 16-17, its origin opposite dorsal fin. Lateral line indistinct; body scales barely im: bricate, pre-dorsal midline naked above pectoral fins. Colour: brownish. Size: to 17 cm.

Habitat: bathypelagic at about 1,300-3,660 m. Food: no data. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: off Gibraltar (single specimen, the type). Elsewhere, eastern South Atlantic, eastern and western central Pacific and Indian Ocean, possibly circumglobal.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Family Alepocephalidae
Genus Asquamiceps
Species Asquamiceps velaris

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Asquamiceps velaris Zugmayer, 1911

Scientific synonyms and common names

Asquamiceps velaris Zugmayer, 1911

Synonyms:

Asquamiceps velaris Zugmayer, l911a, Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, (193): 2 (36° 06' N., 09° W., O to 3660 m). Holotype: MOM.
Asquamiceps velaris: Zugmayer, 1911b: 10, pl. 1 (fig. 4) Fowler, 1936: 186, fig. 75 Lozano Rey, 1947: 82-83, pl. III (fig. 4) Belloc, 1949: 5.
Asquamiceps (Asquamiceps) velaris: Parr, 1954: 4.


Common names:

fanfin smooth-head [En]

Belloc, G. 1949. Catalogue des Types de Poissons du Musée Océanographique de Monaco. Bull. Inst. océanogr. Monaco, (958): 23 p., 3 pl.

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: vii + 606 p., fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18, 1936: 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Lozano y Rey, L. 1947. Peces Ganoideos y Fisostomos, Mems R. Acad. Cienc. exact. fis. nat. Madr., ser.: Cienc. Nat., 11: xv + 839 p., 190 fig., 20 pl.

Parr, A. E. 1954. Review of the deep-sea fishes of the genus Asquamiceps Zugmayer, with descriptions of two new species. Am. Mus. Novit., (1655): 1-8.

Zugmayer, E. 1911a. Diagnoses de Poissons nouveaux provenant des campagnes du Yacht 'Princesse Alice' (1901-1910). Bull. Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (193): 1-14.

Zugmayer, E. 1913. Diagnoses des Stomiatidés nouveaux provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Hirondelle II' (1911 et 1912). Bull. Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (253): 1-7.

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